When I was 5, my parents took me to see Watership Down. They must have figured, "Hey, it's about rabbits and it's animated! Great movie to take a child to. What could possibly go wrong?"

SMASH CUT TO: Trauma. Weeping. Nightmares.

No mention of Toy Story 3 incinerator scene??

I remember being terrified of the Bumble from the Rankin-Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer holiday special. I've got a collection of them now, so I got over it.

I have one deep psychological wound for each time I saw Daffy's bill get blown off?

I remember being scared after seeing The Great Mouse Detective. I think I was 4 or 5 when my dad took me to see that one.

He also remembers when he was a kid he would have to get his little brothers out of the house and usually took them to a movie theater for a day. Once he took them to see a running of Pinnochio and my uncle was so traumatized by Monstro the whale that he had night terrors for a few weeks. My grandmother was so infuriated she made my dad, who was 8 at the time, responsible for putting him to bed and sitting up with him anytime he was afraid. I think that was the first of many baby-sitting related incidents that lead up to him getting kicked out of the house years later.

Hai guyz!

MagSeven: I think I was the only one really creeped out that this man had a goddamn snake thrown INTO him.
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HOOOOOOLY shiat i thought i had dreamed that scene.

Ditto NIHM, and Neverending Story. Heavy shiat that was.

I think some of us have fallen prey to "saw it when I was a kid so its a kid's movie". The Black Hole most certainly was not, especially with a PG. One of my faves AS a kid, but def not meant to ocucpy the same space the films from the list occupy.

I'll posit a couple of oldies:

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which was basically Sound of Music with witchcraft and some really trippy stuff going down.

Pete's Dragon, my absolute fave Disney as a small boy, had some real heavy stuff going on too. Dude wanted to slice Elliot into lil bits and sling 'em snake-oil style. Plus, the family Pete had run from-yikes! I'm from KY and that shiat was disturbing!

I must have been a tuff kid, because nothing listed so far that I saw scared me and the only thing I can think of that scared me was an after school special I thought was call "The Clock in the Wall" but I have not found it listed anywhere. In the movie a kid is made to live or work or something in this house where an old man lives and the house is filled with clocks the hand kind not digital. The old man ends up telling the kid that the reason for so many was to drown out the clock in the wall that he had no access to. One day the kid figures out how to enter the room with the clock in the wall in it and it is a grandfather clock. Shortly after the kid enters this ghostly figure of a woman appears as though it is moving out from the clock she was old looking with white hair flowing up as though it was being blown by wind from below and she made a terrible shrieking noise as she reached out to the kid and moved with extreme speed right towards the camera. I had a bit of trouble sleeping that night but was fine the next day.

Secret of Nihm, the never ending story, the last unicorn, the black cauldron, and Return to OZ all scared the heck out of me as a kid. I also submit the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Headless Horseman chase scene gave me nightmares.

fusillade762: Children's stories (and movies) often have scary parts.

Sometimes whole thing is one big scary part.

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I love Coraline. I still can't get my 7-year-old son to watch it though. He gets as far as the "other mother" asking Coraline if she can replace her eyes with buttons, and then he's done with the movie.

The tornado scene in The Wizard of Oz scared the crap out of me as a kid.

/Probably a midwest thang.

Not a movie, but...



fark you, Punky Brewster.

Also, and I may be alone on this one, but The Ewoks and the battle for Endor. The opening scene where most of true Ewoks and 3/4 of the human family from the first one get slaughtered by those monster barbarian guys. I saw that when is was 3 or 4. It left scars.

Not much scared me as a kid. But I think mom and dad must have done a good job establishing the line between fiction and reality for me.

I watched and loved a lot of the films mentioned in this thread but never really got freaked out by them.

The only times I can remember being truly terrified by a movie, was from watching movies I really shouldn't have been watching as a kid. I remember Nosferatau (or some version of him) freaking me out as my parents watched it in a darkened hotel room when we we moving once. I remember the Galaxy of Terror being pretty damn scary, especially the scene where the vines popped some gal's head.

Ahh Youtube: GORY

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Film came out in '81 and I know I didn't see it in theaters, so I was at least no younger than 9 and I'd guess 10-12 when I saw it. I watched all manner of gory movies as a kid.

Other than those the only time a movie has had me pants-wettingly omg locked in was the scene with the T-Rex in Jurassic Park where it was tearing up the cars. I damn near pissed myself when it blew his Sam Neal's hat off his head. I was near ly grown at the time, but It hit some perfect chink in my suspension of disbelief at that time and just hooked me.

I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

SERIOUSLY those things are cool to me now, but as a freakily plot device in the 80's they gave me the shivers.
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Cheese eating surrender monkey: Not a movie, but...

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fark you, Punky Brewster.

Nice memory. It's at 4:10 of the "part 3" video here.

Christ, I had forgotten that. That episode was jacked up. No way would that make prime time network TV today.

Crewmannumber6: For the millionth time, Watership Down is NOT a kids' movie!

Yes it is.

Keigh: SacriliciousBeerSwiller: I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

I agree with this and therefore i have quoted it to illustrate that fact.

This. I remember seeing my first scary movie at my sitter's when I was in 3rd grade. It was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks. I loved the genre ever since.

/it was also the first boobie I ever saw.

MoronLessOff: Keigh: SacriliciousBeerSwiller: I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

I agree with this and therefore i have quoted it to illustrate that fact.

This. I remember seeing my first scary movie at my sitter's when I was in 3rd grade. It was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks. I loved the genre ever since.

/it was also the first boobie I ever saw.

Anatomy lessons with Freddy...

Keigh: Profedius: "The Clock in the Wall".

sounds like an episode of "Are you Afraid of The Dark?"

Thanks for providing me another avenue to search I have been actively looking for it over the years, but could not recall the name or what main program it was part of.

ShadowLAnCeR: MoronLessOff: Keigh: SacriliciousBeerSwiller: I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

I agree with this and therefore i have quoted it to illustrate that fact.

This. I remember seeing my first scary movie at my sitter's when I was in 3rd grade. It was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks. I loved the genre ever since.

/it was also the first boobie I ever saw.

Anatomy lessons with Freddy...

Yup. It lead to a phase of me renting scary movies to get my adolescent fap on. Ah...the early 90's.

Keigh: MoronLessOff: Keigh: SacriliciousBeerSwiller: I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

I agree with this and therefore i have quoted it to illustrate that fact.

This. I remember seeing my first scary movie at my sitter's when I was in 3rd grade. It was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks. I loved the genre ever since.

/it was also the first boobie I ever saw.

I think i was at that party. but i was a nerdy little girl that didn't like scary movies so i went to help the Mom cook.

/Didn't see Halloween until the remake came out and a friend made me watch it and then took me to the new one.

2nd boobie. Too bad they had to obscure it with that stupid mask POV.

I thought the remake was rather well done.

Crewmannumber6: MoronLessOff: ShadowLAnCeR: MoronLessOff: Keigh: SacriliciousBeerSwiller: I think this is why so many kids coming out of college these days are such pussies. Kids used to be hardened by psychological torment in their entertainment, right up through the 1980s. Most of the newer stuff on this list from the 90s is friggin' bush league,

I agree with this and therefore i have quoted it to illustrate that fact.

This. I remember seeing my first scary movie at my sitter's when I was in 3rd grade. It was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks. I loved the genre ever since.

/it was also the first boobie I ever saw.

Anatomy lessons with Freddy...

Yup. It lead to a phase of me renting scary movies to get my adolescent fap on. Ah...the early 90's.

Had a similar experience with P.J. Soles in the original Halloween

Yup. I'd stick her too, IYKWIM

CZMisfitsFan: Anytime David Bowie's package appeared on screen in Labyrinth.
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You rang?

I was always creeped out by the Outerscope puppets on Vegetable Soup.

/The dead eyes! The human hands! *shudder*

I must have been totally warped as a child. None of these have ever bothered me. And everything listed in these here comments (that I've seen) were some of the most memorable scenes from my childhood. Shoot, I just about ruined my VHS copy of Pee Wee's Big Adventure watching that Large Marge bit over and over...and I couldn't have been more than seven then.

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Earnest Scared Stupid. A troll that mimics the voice of lovable friendly Earnest and turns you into a wooden statue. Damn thing gave me nightmares for years.

That whole movie gave me nightmares. To this day I still don't want to watch it.

FatMason: Two words: Large Marge

This, I thought I was the only one. It still haunts me sometimes.*shudders*

Bag of hammers too right re: end of "Blackhole" I was just about old enough to understand the whole Satan, hell fairy story and I'm not ashamed to admit that as 8 year old kid, it freaked the living shiat out of me

Not technically a kid's film but I had a HS teacher who shared with us how she had been traumatized by Animal Farm as a kid. We were reading the novel for class and she told us how when the AF movie came out, her parents thought "animated=kid movie" and dropped her off to see it in the theater. Now, I saw this movie in college and it was seriously disturbing at 18, I can't imagine the nightmares my she must've had!